• Overcome FUD with a clear cloud services policy: Ovum

  Australian policy makers need to explain the benefits of cloud services clearly if state and federal government adoption is to improve, according to Ovum Australia's research director, Steve Hodgkinson.

• Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamouring for enterprise customers

  Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.

• Dell announces Aussie datacentre footprint, to move Cloud services to region

  IT giant, Dell, has unveiled its local datacentre play by announcing two “significant investments in the millions of dollars” to settle into two sites along the Australian Eastern seaboard.

• DIY Cloud: Choosing your own virtual machine image sizes

  Amazon Web Services, seen by many as the market-leading infrastructure cloud computing provider, has a pretty full shelf of virtual machine (VM) image sizes for customers to spin up in its Cloud -- 17 separate instance VM sizes are listed on the company's website, in fact.

• SDN switch company takes aim at the cloud

  SDN switch vendor Pica8 this week unveiled a reference architecture intended to help cloud providers develop their programmable networks using Pica8 products.

Whitepapers about cloud services

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  Batten Down the Hatches! A Guide to Protecting Data in Motion

  The risks facing high-speed data networks and unencrypted data while in motion are very real and on the rise. As information becomes one of the most valuable ‘off balance sheet’ assets, protection of that information and the investment in it is a paramount obligation of office-holders and management. Read now for a better understanding of the risks to data in motion.

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  The Foundation for Cloud Management